I was holding out an against my better judgment sort of hope up until these last couple of weeks. I'm not happy about it, but at this point I kind of have to admit that it looks like it's not just going to be something that's unfaithful to the source material, but also just plain a bad movie. It's got that stank…

Sometimes I wonder if the books filmed more or less as-is would just be too big a leap for a lot of people. I mean they really truly are pretty damned weird. I was trying to explain them to a work friend who's actually a pretty big geek, and pretty well read, and his response was "So sort of like Cowboys and…

Well partially I was having some fun here. Sowing seeds of discord as it were.

Yup. Best case scenario at this point looks like this sinks quickly, there's a decade or so moratorium, and then HBO or Showtime or AMC or FX or whoever gets brave and decides to do it relatively faithfully as a tv show.

Yessir. Damn pronoun/proper noun trouble.

True. I was making a segue between being underwhelmed thus far by all of the trailers for this movie based on a series of Stephen King novels into being relatively impressed by the trailers for It, which is based on a different Stephen King novel.

Correct. Hence the capitalization of "It".

I think you could pretty reasonably pull off turning the first two books into one movie provided a decent run-time and a bit of careful trimming. Really when you get down to it, the events of book 2 happen pretty quickly.

Look I don't know what YOUR habits are, but I get my medical care from that one veterinarian's technician who has access to the Dilaudid just like any right thinking American would. But - I mean - you do you.

So much of what makes these books special is in the odd digressive world-building. It's a western/fantasy/sci-fi/romance series with SuperTrains and fancy revolvers with Sandalwood grips and magical crystal balls and Doctors Doom and naked heroin addict gunplay - trying to make it into some palatable every-franchise…

So far, I've been feeling like the trailers are getting the feel of the book right. I'm mostly curious to see how the updates of the 50's monsters that the kids see in the book translate into the 80's monsters that (reportedly) the kids see in the movie.

I wish I didn't have such a sinking feeling about this movie. OTOH, I guess It looks pretty swell.

This has an absolute ton of potential. The stories wouldn't require much tinkering with to be very "filmic", none of the key effects are so crazy as to be budget breaking CGI-wise, and it's just a really solid story from front to back. I listened to the audiobook version that they put out a couple of years back, and…

Yup. I have the full line - everything that was released to retailers. Only things I don't have are a few con exclusive type things, and then a Kermit/Piggy set that you could only get at a wedding of two Palisades employees.

I've never actually seen Muppets Tonight. However - I do have the Clifford that Palisades Toys released back in the early 2000s. And - the entire rest of the line. Those things are rad.

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Disney's planning to rasta-fy Kermit by 10%, and this guy wouldn't play ball.

I couldn't get out to his show on this tour, which was a huge bummer. I'd like to think he took them out on the road with him, but - not sure.

Yeah. I just - these are people who have worked HARD, and it was so nice to see them come into a relative degree of success semi late in life. It was - refreshing, I guess. And I hate to see that go away.

I used to live in Bushwick, not that far from the DapTone studios, and I always kind of wanted to go knock on the door and see what was going on, but I was too shy/embarrassed to do it.